Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where it is higher, drier. There he punched cows, hunted, fished, slept under the stars. Outdoor life brought him a robust, ruddy-cheeked vitality he has never lost. Nights he began reading law, at 21 was admitted to the Texas bar at Uvalde. For a while he was a local judge, then went to the State Legislature where he served four years...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' New York Evening Post has long been anything but robust. In the past year its circulation slipped from 102,632 (smallest in Manhattan) to 100,833. Down went its advertising lineage until only Macfadden's tabloid pornographic ranked below it.* The men at the Post have worked valiantly to keep up with their lusty competitors, the Sun and World-Telegram. (Hearst's Journal, "America's Greatest Evening Newspaper," is for a different class of reader.) They advertised heavily the able writings on Russia of Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker. They reproduced facsimilies...
...This robust biography would have pleased its robust subject. It is written to the Roosevelt formula of history: "The exact truth . . . our disasters and shortcomings as well as our triumphs." Without too finicky mental analysis Biographer Pringle has painted the bouncing, bubbling, sometimes bumptious career of "Teddy'' (he loathed that nickname)? the sickly child who messed around with dead frogs; the dudish State legislator who "rose like a rocket"; the Civil Service Commissioner who warred with Postmaster General John Wanamaker on the spoils system; the New York City Police Commissioner who brought the town down about his ears...
...second change of management was the dropping of Amadeo Peter Giannini, his brother Dr. Attilio H. Giannini, his not robust son Lawrence Mario Giannini from the directorate, and also their good & stanch friends Prentis Cobb Hale of San Francisco and George Newell Armsby of California Packing. The long suspected LYNN PORTER TALLEY . . . does not let enthusiasm replace collateral. Giannini-Walker feud broke into the open with this news. Founder Giannini announced his resignation had been presented last June "because I could not approve of the plans, policies and procedure of my successor, Chairman Walker." Ironic was this statement since Founder...
...dance and pole-sitting records. Naturally the records lately signalized by the British are not in the category of the latter. But there may be a connection between the attitude and practices of the English of contemporary times and their unenviable and unfortunate governmental and economic crisis. Perhaps the robust and thoughtless attitude which the United States has spread abroad with its produce and tourists has had an appreciable part in causing and aggravating the world-wide maladjustments...